AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 July 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

BUNDLED INTO CATTLE

TRUCKS. j i ■—l-. CLEARING COUNTRY OF PLOTTERS. NEW, YORK, July 12. There were unprecedented scenes at Bisbee, Arizona, when 1100 troublesome IW.W., agitators were bundled into cattle trucks and deported to Mexico. The men were mostly strangers, who tad fomented labour troubles and terrorised workers for weeks. This culminated in Sheriff Wheeler calling a midnight meeting of citizens at which lie enrolled 2000 deputies and distributed revolvers, wtih orders that the deputies were not to shoot except in selfdefence. At dawn the deputies swept the town, searched houses and rounded Strangers into a parit enclosure, where they were kept till they were entrained Shots were frequently exchanged. Two I/W.W.'s were fatally shot. This is the beginning of a campaign to ctear the country of German-inspired plotters. I.W.W. terrorism is rampant in many Western States, The situation is most critical.